Mothercare will re-hire its former boss in a shocking U-turn as the company plans to shutter 50 stores.

The retailer has already almost halved its store numbers over the past five years. It will have just 78 by 2020, down to 72 two years after that.

The baby chain, which will lay out details of the overhaul in its results on Thursday, ditched Mr Newton-Jones as chief executive last month, with then-chairman Alan Parker having said although he had "done a good job, we think we can do even better going forward".

David Wood, who was brought in to replace Newton-Jones is expected to take up another executive role.

Clive Whiley, Mothercare's interim executive chairman, said: "The recent financial performance of the business, impacted in particular by a large number of legacy loss-making stores within the United Kingdom estate, has resulted in an unsustainable situation for the Mothercare brand, meaning the group was in clear need of an appropriate resolution". Commenting on the restructure, Clive Whiley, Mothercare's Interim Executive Chairman, added, "These comprehensive measures provide a renewed and stable financial structure for the business and will drive a step change in Mothercare's transformation".

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More recent songs with a low happiness index included Sam Smith's " Stay with Me " and "Whispers" by Passenger , both from 2014. The researchers emphasize that they were looking for the trends in the acoustic properties and the moods describing the sounds.

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The Nittany Lions announced Wednesday that their visit to their arch-rivals in Pittsburgh on September 8 will kick off at 8 p.m. The Pirates, set to play the Miami Marlins on the same day at 7:05 p.m. changed the start time of their game to 1:05 p.m.

A 28-man roster for the upcoming World Cup, which kicks off in a month in Russian Federation , was announced on Monday. South Korea's two English Premier League stars Son Heung-min and Ki Sung-yueng made the cut as expected.

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After that they dedicated Brock to building Bitcoin within Square Cash , saying the feeling of solving the issue was "amazing". Stark asked what had changed in the interim. "It felt electric", he said.

N Parliamentarians concerned over Nawaz Sharif's narrative
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BCCI announce squads for Women's T20 Challenge
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Gameplay Trailer | RAGE 2
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